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Lot 49
  • 49

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand (B. 117; M., Holl. 218)
  • Woodcut
  • Image: 390 by 286mm; 15 3/8 by 11¼in
  • Sheet: 420 by 309mm; 16½ by 12 1/8 in
Woodcut, circa 1496, a good Meder c impression, on paper with a Crest of Augsburg watermark (M. 177)

Provenance

Ex coll. Friedrich Quiring (L. 1041c)

Condition

With small margins, in good condition apart from a soft central horizontal fold (mainly visible verso), a minute stain below the roots of the tree at upper left, unframed.
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